2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Susan Sarandon has a great locale for your next workers' council meeting. [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)And the backlash from the real world, as well as Chris Hayes's reaction, tells you just how outrageous what she said was. No, she didn't say "great", but she most certainly implied that it would be good if Trump caused things to "really explode" to bring on "the revolution." And even when Chris Hayes commented that it was the "Leninist model" of "heightening the contradictions" she responded by saying yeah.
This is sheer lunacy. The "contradictions" that Lenin wanted to "heighten" involved human misery. And she agreed with it. Agreed with the premise that it is a good thing for people (other people, of course, not her) to suffer in the hope that it will make them angry enough to bring about a revolution that you are hoping for.
Please, tell me what you think of that philosophy. I can't wait to hear it. Because I hope that you would agree that it is morally grotesque for anyone to even entertain the idea that increasing the misery of (other) people for the sake of some utopian revolution.
I get that you have taken some peculiar interest in me personally, but as I've explained to you already, yes, I was strongly against Hillary, particularly towards the end of the 2008 where she couldn't possibly win and was stretching the campaign out pointlessly and divisively. And I was just as opposed to the PUMA movement of 2008 as with the Bernie or Bust movement of this year. Anyone who claims to be a progressive and then advocates for things that can have no possible outcome but to increase the power of the GOP is not someone that I will have kind things to say about.
Glad to hear you're not a Bernie or Buster, I was mistaken, and I take that back.